Skin Folk

Nalo Hopkinson · first published 2001 · ISBN 9780759566323

Fifteen stories that are themselves fables, each one a Caribbean reimagining of something familiar. Riding the Red tells Little Red Riding Hood from her grandmother's perspective. The Money Tree weaves piracy, greed, and a mother who is a river spirit. The Glass Bottle Trick marries Beauty and the Beast with Persephone. Precious adapts the Midas myth. These aren't retellings; they're transformations.